If you have been keeping track this is the fourth series that we have taught this year based on “What Jesus said about. . .” In April we spoke about “What Jesus said About Money” and we focused on Jesus’ words concerning how we make and how we spend our money. In May and June…
The Church, The Body of Christ
The Church. The Church. When I say church, what do you think of? A little white clapboard building with a steeple and a bell, or perhaps the Crystal Cathedral in California. Maybe you don’t think of a building instead you think of people, perhaps your friends and fellow believers at Cornerstone come to mind, if…
Who Cares?
The question apparently isn’t “was he or wasn’t he?”. . . the question is “Who cares?” A couple of weeks ago it was reported that a fragment of manuscript had been discovered with the words “Jesus said to them, ‘my wife. . .’”. Well, that set the cat amongst the pigeons, so to speak. The…
Panem et Circenses
Topless princesses or spoiled hockey players? The news is full of both stories. It is interesting that the obscene salaries of professional athletes only becomes an issue when there is a strike or a lock out. But as long as the fans have something to watch nobody really talks about salaries. People are always decrying…
The Church, The Family of God
Over the past couple of years the media has made having a hay day with the news that fewer and fewer Canadians are attending church on any giving Sunday. They cite statistics that as a people Canadians seem to be becoming more spiritual, that is they pray more and meditate but they are not going…
Who’s Your Daddy
Who’s your daddy? Or, who isn’t your daddy? A company in New York City, cruising the city streets in a mobile medical clinic, is offering people a chance to find out for just $299.00. DNA testing, once an expensive time-consuming process out of reach of most people, has suddenly become affordable. Sources say over 500,000…
The Church, a Beautiful Bride
It was a quiet Saturday morning as the guests began to filter into the little church. Friends of the couple had been there for hours making sure everything was just perfect. The guests were a diverse bunch, some were friends of hers, and others were friends of his. They both had family there as well…
Here Kitty, Kitty
It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, a harbinger of things to come. A computer that has been taught to learn. Can anything good come from this? In June, Google’s secretive X-Labs conducted an experiment involving the networking of 16,000 ultrafast computer processors. Then they loaded 10 billion random images from YouTube videos…
The Cost of Church Growth
It’s funny but in church life we often have a few different “Brand New Years”. The first Sunday in January we celebrate the “New Year” with the rest of Canada often with a sermon on forgetting the past and looking ahead to what God has in store for us. At Cornerstone as well as other…